the_bolshevik
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Hi folks,
I've recently built my first FreeNAS machine in a used Supermicro 6025B-T server I picked up for a good price.
The thing has six drive bays, and I currently have four 3TB Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm drives in it, configured as a RAIDZ2. I did that without having done extensive research on the subject and now realize that two sets of dynamically striped mirrors would be faster.
How much faster is it? Is it worth wiping my pool and starting from scratch? I have an extra computer that can back up everything (in fact it is doing that now) so destroying the pool is still an option at this point, as it hasn't grown beyond the maximum capacity I have on the other rig. There would also be the option of setting up a single raidz1 vdev at first (3x 3TB), buying extra drives and eventually expanding it to two dynamically striped raidz1's. And if there isn't much to be gained I can leave it like that for now, and when the time comes expand it with a mirrored vdev to fill out the remaining drive bays...
At the moment I am seeing around 60-80 MB/s on large file transfers over my network with bursts up to 95 MB/s, so it seems I'm already not too far from maxing out my Gigabit network.
Thanks!
I've recently built my first FreeNAS machine in a used Supermicro 6025B-T server I picked up for a good price.
The thing has six drive bays, and I currently have four 3TB Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm drives in it, configured as a RAIDZ2. I did that without having done extensive research on the subject and now realize that two sets of dynamically striped mirrors would be faster.
How much faster is it? Is it worth wiping my pool and starting from scratch? I have an extra computer that can back up everything (in fact it is doing that now) so destroying the pool is still an option at this point, as it hasn't grown beyond the maximum capacity I have on the other rig. There would also be the option of setting up a single raidz1 vdev at first (3x 3TB), buying extra drives and eventually expanding it to two dynamically striped raidz1's. And if there isn't much to be gained I can leave it like that for now, and when the time comes expand it with a mirrored vdev to fill out the remaining drive bays...
At the moment I am seeing around 60-80 MB/s on large file transfers over my network with bursts up to 95 MB/s, so it seems I'm already not too far from maxing out my Gigabit network.
Thanks!
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